Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Finely bound books, Maps, Posters, and Ephemera, 61426, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 14, 2026 - June 14, 2026
Page Size: 324 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
103 Owen William Fitzwilliam

Africa. Sheet V From Cape Correntes to Juba Islands

London 1828 AUD 300.00 - 450.00 AUD 2,032.00
104 Owen William Fitzwilliam

Juba and Dundas Islands on the East Coast of Africa

London 1828 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 203.20
105 Owen William Fitzwilliam

Mozambique to Pomba Bay; Masangzani Bay to Premeira Islands; Chala Point to Kwyhoo Bay

London 1847 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 285.75
106 Riudavets; Tudury; Perez

Mar Mediterraneo - Costa Meridional de Espana Hoja II

Madrid 1876 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
107

Russian Lapland Kola Inlet

1946 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
108 Combe JWF; Garbett LG; Rupert-Jones JA; Shankland FC

St. John's Harbour

1914; 1937 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
109

Anchorage in Alaska

1933; 1938 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
110 Shortland

Bay of Fundy East Coast Brier Island to Gulliver Hole

1927 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
111

Black Sea: southern Approach to Kherson Bay

1939 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
112

Celeres-West Coast. Cape William to Tandyung Karang

1937 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
113

River Pyechora from Klimov Island to Nar'yanmara

1943 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
114

Hiiu-Kardla Reid

1921 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
115 Graves; Beacon

Coast of Asia Minor Cape Eski Stambul to Kum Kale Besike Bay and Tenedos

1947 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
116

Kandalaksha Gulf, Kandalaksha Approaches

1948 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
117

Gulf of OB' Gulf of Yenesey

1949 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
118

France: West Coast La Loire St Nazaire to Nantes

1953 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
119

Harbours and Anchorages of the Bahamas

1929 AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
120

N Books, including: Plans in Naikai and Kii Suido

1949 AUD 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
121 Vidal ATE

Carta esferica de las islas Madera, Porto-Santo y Desiertas

Madrid 1861; c. 1901 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
122 Leber Frank M

Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia

New Haven 1972 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
123

Canberra's Suburb and Street Names: History - Origins and Meanings

1992 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
124 Doorly; Bowden Time; Gillham Mary; Coleman-Cooke John; Stephenson Richard W

N Books, including: In the Wake

Melbourne; Sydney; Wellington; London c. 1950; 1997; 1967; 1963; 1959 AUD 250.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
125 Cumpston J S

Macquarie Island

1968 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 139.70
126 Giaever John; Hayes J Gordon

N Books, including: The White Desert

London 1954; 1934; 1928 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
127 Broome; Dingle; Priestley

The Victorians

1984 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 228.60
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000